You would think that with a dwindling economy and rising employment, our local watering holes would be a bunch of happy campers as local once-rich executives and yupsters realize that $800k home wasn’t such a good idea. They were happy until the French got involved. A French cardiologist, Dr. Olivier Ameisen, claims he cured his alcoholism with self prescribed doses of muscle relaxants. He wrote about his path to salvation in a book, “Le Dernier Verre” (The Last Glass). The BBC reports in detail:
Some doctors have decided to ignore the fact that the drug is not authorised for treating alcoholism, and report exciting results.
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“I prescribed it to two alcoholics who were really at the end of the road. To be honest, it was pretty miraculous,” says Dr Renaud de Beaurepaire of the Paul-Guiraud hospital at Villejuif near Paris.In Geneva, Dr Pascal Garche put 12 patients on baclofen, of whom seven came through reporting marked improvements.
Could this be the placebo affect?
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Supposedly, if you stop taking Baclofen after taking it for awhile, you will have seizures and hallucinations. So is it really a cure if it’s just substituting one substance for another?
Baclofen = elf bacon
The magic of bacon with the goodness of christmas
i was on baclofen for a time for back problems, and didn’t have any problems when i stopped taking it.
however, if i go cold turkey on bacon, i’m a mess.
While not a muscle relaxant, the benzodiazapan family of drugs (valium, klonopin etc) is often used to taper people off alcohol. Its a tricky balance though, as those babies can be quite addictive. Trust me on that one.
@4
klonopin is the food of the gods.
significant memory loss and the exquisitely comforting fuck-it-all elan we all seek.
i’ve read somewhere that LSD is effective on treating alcoholism.
No, you hallucinated that while you were drunk.
@5 klonopin sounds like the perfect stress relief valve. I’ll take two, please.
@6
LSD for migraines.
@8
get some immediately. take two to four every day and you won’t remember a damn thing, forget names and faces and movies you’ve seen and books you’ve read and what you did on thursday. it’s awesome. whole new worlds cool out of my head.
I <3 benzos (in moderation of course). Perfect for the anxiety riddled, like myself.
@9 ooooooh! That will go over REALLY well at work! I can see it now:
“what did you want?”
“I wanna pay my bill”
“huh? your bill?”
“wtf man i wanna pay my fuckin’ sprint bill”
“oh, you should do that then”
Then I get shot and am dead.
I think I’ll stick with the delicious feeling of gliding along on valium-coated wings all day.
take two to four every day
But beware, if you do this for a couple weeks, and then stop abruptly… well… enjoy your seizure.
Seizures, eh? That could make for a fun night.
@10.
i heard meditation and yoga work for that
@11 is fabulous.
Hey, if you’re addicted to something new, you won’t have a label until they come up with it. Like swapping “smackhead” for “cottonhead”…you won’t be labeled an “alcoholic”, you’ll just be the one over in the corner drooling on themselves.
@16 Yeah… But I really didn’t expect anyone to dig THAT hot mess up. Poor thing.
/forgot he was shot dead over groggily not helping a drug dealer pay his sprint bill
@14 strangely, they are also prescribed to help control seizures
It may be the placebo effect affecting that effect, but certainly no placebo affectation. Noun, meet verb.
But on the bright side they make you numb all over. Sign me up!
seriously, on topic…
fellini’s now has lunch.
rapture now has a dj on tuesdays
zocalo will be open on nye with a dj
support, support when you can.
and si is trying to be a place in an oversaturated market in an economic downturn. the only time i ate there, i liked it. better than mas.
Yeah, guys. Don’t eat McD’s when you can get orgasmatastic sesame noodles from Marco And Luca’s. Or Eppie’s Mac’N'Cheese. Or a panini from Cafe Cubano.
Ooooof. Fat man starts thinkin’ bout food. *salivating*
Seriously, though, the great restaurant shake up is coming, and coming soon.
I’m ready to put about 8 places on immediate deathwatch.
@26 like who?
@ 26 Restaurant cutbacks?
So 5 Guys will become 3 guys and a midget?
Blue Light will become Blue Candle?
Zocalo will become Zocalower?
Rapture will become Amusement?
Three will become Two
Ten will be Seven
Cafe Cubano will become Cafe Cubana
Mud House to Mud Puddle
Feast becomes Snack?
Mas Becomes Poco?
The Local becomes Low Cal
.
.
.
This will all be so very confusing.
There is no freaking way I’m ordering the bento box at seven.
@28: Using that logic, would Bang! become Foreplay.?
Did anyone else think Bel Rio blew last night?
Lucky The Virginian closed down.
Zinc becomes Copper (that’s for Tuffy)
@31 that reminds me would C&O become B&J’s?
I’ll play along, I’m bored…
Melting Pot —> Melted Bowl
The Nook —> The Cranny
Flourie —> Herbe
Si —> No
Bluegrass —> Blueweeds
Zinc —> Aluminum
The Box—>The Bag
The Upstairs —> The Basement
ok ill stop
Cafe Cubanito, that is. This ain’t Utah.
“Cafe Cubano will become Cafe Cubana”
the homophile is now sexist?
Melting Pot –> Mealy Pit
The Nook –> The Nick
Fleurie –> Rosebud
Si –> Eh
Bluegrass –> Blown Stubble
Zinc –> Tin
The Box –> The Wrapper
The Upstairs –> The Attic
The C&O –> The C or O.
Interesting
/like mine better
@27 Meh, I’ll withhold my purely subjective speculation on who’s about to close shop, but you certainly see a lot of empty tables when you go out these days.
My guess would be the places where prices are high, quality is mediocre and no major drinking presence exists would be on particularly shaky ground.
Sounds kinda like Sal’s
Lulu’s house —-> Belmonty’s porch?
The boathouse —> the outhouse
although if i lost access to their salmon i’d cry.
@28
so, Cafe Cubano will become Cafe Cubana,
by naming the place in a feminine form rather than a masculine, it by nature, becomes cheaper.
nice.
jesus everyone, I am very sorry to have activated your umbrage. I dont speak spanish, and in said ignorance, i fucked up. and I didnt mean cheap, or even feminine I meant smaller. Cabina of cubanito would have been better.
I promise i will be overly cautious in the future, which of course will make me much more boring, but hey… its safe right? fuck.
@45 if you knew anything about cubans, you’d know the women are larger, especially their asses.
@46: Are you Cuban?
@47 WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!
fyi, i am going to claw your eyes out tonight.
Lighten up, Belmont Yo, as long as I’m around you will always be the big lovable fuzzball.
- please continue to be yourself
@49: That’s fine. I don’t need them.
@50 except to drive me around. ok, no cobbler for you then.